HEDY LAMARR (1914-2000) [On working with Clark Gable]: ‘Although I never quite understood his sex appeal, I thought he was one of the nicest people I’d met, and a great practical joker.’ Hedy & Robert Taylor in Lady of the Tropics (1939) [On Robert Taylor, her co-star in Lady of the […]
Victoria Principal The stunningly beautiful Victoria Principal was born in Fukuoka, Japan when her father was stationed there as a United States Air Force sergeant in January 1950. She began making commercials at the age of five and started modelling in high school. A serious car crash at eighteen […]
JEAN HARLOW (1911 – 37) Born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, to a dentist and his wife, the young actress who would one day become Jean Harlow and known around the world as ‘The Platinum Blonde’, ran away from home at sixteen to marry a 23 year-old businessman […]
RICHARD HARRIS: ‘No-one trusts me anymore. I spent half the movie [Maigret (1988)] arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows…I […]
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) could have been a really good romantic comedy. But it wasn’t and that is a pity. It boasts the services of three extremely desirable Hollywood women in the leading roles, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe, and all three are terrific. […]
(L to R) Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate & Patty Duke Jacqueline Susann based the book on which the 1967 film of the same title, Valley of the Dolls, on a number of people […]
March 29, 1939 – Gable & Lombard marry. William Powell was married to Carole Lombard from 1931 until 1933. The much-loved Carole was an out-going, often outrageous woman, prone to wild partying, raucous behaviour, and the use of appallingly bad language, if the mood took her. When they first met, […]
Jon Hall in The Hurricane (1937) Director John Ford was convinced that no actor could effectively fake the pain experienced in a flogging, so the star of The Hurricane (1937), Jon Hall, volunteered to be whipped for real and was horse-whipped until his back bled! The censors, however, took one look at […]
Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938) The scene in both Pygmalion (1938) and My Fair Lady (1964) where Eliza accidentally swallows a marble during her elocution lessons was never part of George Bernard Shaw’s original story. In the 1938 film Wendy Hiller suddenly exhibited a pained […]
There has been a number of mysterious deaths in Hollywood and the movie (and TV )business over the past hundred or so years. Over the next week or so I shall briefly look at the most interesting of […]
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